In-Flight Seatback Screens May Be Going Extinct

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12 Oct

Images of the seatback screens on an Airbus A350 aircraft in 2017. U.S. carriers are split on whether single-aisle fleets need them, but all agree that better Wi-Fi means less need for seatback screens. Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg

Skift Take: U.S. carriers are split on whether single-aisle fleets need seatback screens. Consumer tastes are changing as in-flight Wi-Fi quality improves.

— Sean O’Neill

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02 Jun

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Hong Kong Tourism Braces for Blowback From New Security Bill That Threatens Autonomy

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View of Hong Kong from the executive club lounge balcony of the Four Seasons Hotel. Ken Seet / Photo credit: Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts

Skift Take: Any hope that a new security bill will bring back calm to Hong Kong is tempered by the grim reality it will change the very thing that makes the city unique: its independence. Hong Kong is in a tight spot, and with it, its travel and tourism industry.

— Raini Hamdi

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02 Jun

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Spain’s Tourist Economy Begins to Reopen With Guarantee of Good Bill of Health

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Beaches in Spain have reopened ahead of the country’s target to welcome international visitors with the promise of a healthy stay. Masbebet / Needpix

Skift Take: With no new deaths reported for the first time in months and an economy beginning to reopen, Spain awaits the return of international visitors — slated for later this summer — with a heightened health promise.

— Cameron Sperance

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02 Jun

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Emirates May Take Years Until It Flies All of Its Routes Again

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Tim Clark. The Emirates president is retiring next year. Emirates

Skift Take: A slow recovery for Emirates, a Dubai-based airline owned by the U.A.E., will mean layoffs for the carrier, which employs about 60,000 people.

— Sean O’Neill

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02 Jun

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Vatican Museums Reopen With the Rare Appeal of Limited Crowds

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A roof of a wing of the Vatican Museums at the papal palace in Rome. JumpStory

Skift Take: Before the crisis, if you’ve wanted to see the galleries at the papal palace in Rome without the herds of other visitors, you’ve had to pay about $350 or more for an after-hours tour. But now all it takes is a standard admission ticket of $19 (€17) for Italian residents.

— Sean O’Neill

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02 Jun

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Don’t Miss This Seminal Moment for Racial Justice, Travel Industry

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U.S. President Donald Trump on May 30, 2020 said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been ‘greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.’ Tom Brenner / Reuters

Skift Take: The U.S. travel industry is largely self-absorbed at the moment with millions of people out of work, and businesses struggling to survive. But it will ignore the pivotal moment that is unfolding across U.S. cities at its own peril.

— Dennis Schaal

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01 Jun

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Lufthansa’s Board Approves $10 Billion Euro Government Bailout

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Lufthansa is taking a big government bailout. Pictured is one of the airline’s A350s. Lufthansa

Skift Take: Lufthansa’s supervisory board would have preferred not to be in this position. But this was the only way forward for the company.

— Brian Sumers

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01 Jun

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Turkey Reopens Grand Bazaar and Resumes Domestic Flights

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Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. Istanbul reopened the Grand Bazaar as Turkey resumed domestic flights as part of easing restrictions taken against the coronavirus pandemic. JumpStory

Skift Take: It’s a symbolic move for Turkey to reopen one of its most famous attractions, the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. But it’s also important that the country has been able to stick with its timetable of easing restrictions taken against the pandemic.

— Sean O’Neill

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01 Jun

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Japan Could Reopen to Corporate Travelers With Strict Coronavirus Testing

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Shibuya street in Tokyo, Japan. The country is considering reopening its borders since their closure in February. Tonefotografia / Adobe

Skift Take: Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand would need to sign up to dual COVID-19 tests, and either side of the border, in order to gain entry. Is this the future of corporate travel?

— Matthew Parsons

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31 May

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Bankrupt LATAM Airlines Took a $1.7 Billion Q1 Impairment Due To the Pandemic

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LATAM Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner photographed on May 13, 2016. LATAM said May 29 that it lost $2.1 billion in the first quarter. LATAM

Skift Take: The first quarter of 2020 was impairment season for global travel companies, and LATAM chipped in $1.7 billion. For some travel industry firms, the second quarter will likely be worse.

— Dennis Schaal

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31 May

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Canada to Pony Up Millions to Help Its Provinces Promote Local Vacations

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A view of Quebec from Booking.com. Skift

Skift Take: This is a wise decision to extend a lifeline to the hurting tourism industry. And it’s a first for the government, providing funds to promote going local.

— Tom Lowry

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30 May

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Belgium Restarts Cross-Border Family Visits

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Three Brussels Airlines planes stand at departure gates at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, Belgium, April 3, 2016. Brussels approved family travel from outside the country. Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press

Skift Take: It is still complicated to travel to Belgium due to neighbors restrictions, but cross-border family visits amounts to a slight easing of the rules.

— Dennis Schaal

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30 May

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Costa Rica Closes Border Until June 30 But Domestic Travel Reopens

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Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Peninsula Papagayo in February 2019. Andaz Costa Rica Resort

Skift Take: Costa Rica is leaning toward safety as its overriding goal in keeping out international travelers until June 30.

— Dennis Schaal

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